That stands to reason, as you do not have a turbo capable processor. One would always expect for it to report 3.4 GHz, unless you were purposefully throttling it down..._________________Work FS: i7-4790k || 16Gb DDR3 || nVidia 7200GS || 5x 1Tb SATA Drives in RAID5

I did look through all of the available BIOS options, and turned on extended ACPI 2.0 tables, but not C1E support (if I understand, this is for throttling down, not up). My understanding of AMD's Turbo mode, was that it should be controlled within the chip, without any need for special BIOS settings, or driver support?

I was looking over my previous post, and had a thought. The link that was provided to cpu-world.com noted:

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Turbo frequency: 3200 MHz (3 cores or less)

So, maybe this explains why the cores are ranging from 2.7GHz to just under 3.2GHz at idle. However, when all six cores are called to full load it flattens out to the base 2.7GHz. Turbo mode is maybe working exactly as intended: ready to absorb a few single threaded shock loads here and there at increased speeds, but limiting itself to the stable base for sustained multi-threaded demand?

Turbo Core works by treating the hexa-core architecture as two tri-core blocks. If up to three cores are under load then the processors will clock the other three down to 800MHz and speed up the block of three that is being used. Like Intel the amount of extra performance is determined by the TDP of the processors. Unlike Intel this isn't determined on the fly, rather the Turbo Core speed is set by processor model. For example, the top end Phenom II X6 1090T runs at 3.2GHz, but when Turbo Core is active it runs at 3.6GHz with the unused cores running at 800MHz.

Turbo Core works by treating the hexa-core architecture as two tri-core blocks. If up to three cores are under load then the processors will clock the other three down to 800MHz and speed up the block of three that is being used. Like Intel the amount of extra performance is determined by the TDP of the processors. Unlike Intel this isn't determined on the fly, rather the Turbo Core speed is set by processor model. For example, the top end Phenom II X6 1090T runs at 3.2GHz, but when Turbo Core is active it runs at 3.6GHz with the unused cores running at 800MHz.

Thanks you for this, now I see that when one core is fully load it's clocking up two cores and clocking down one core.